[HN Gopher] Raspberry Pi 5 shortages shouldn't last long
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       Raspberry Pi 5 shortages shouldn't last long
        
       Author : salmaic
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-01-14 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | aNoob7000 wrote:
       | I wonder how many of the 200K+ PIs being manufactured are
       | actually going to consumers. It seems to me that most of the PIs
       | that are being made are just being sold straight to businesses.
        
         | sgbeal wrote:
         | i don't know if this is a local or global thing, but all(?)
         | certified pi resellers here in Germany (that is: the resellers
         | linked to directly from the pi site) have limited pi device
         | orders to one per household since at least 18 months.
        
         | geerlingguy wrote:
         | Raspberry Pi stated in their launch blog post [1]:
         | 
         | "We're going to ringfence all of the Raspberry Pi 5s we sell
         | until at least the end of the year for single-unit sales to
         | individuals, so you get the first bite of the cherry."
         | 
         | If they were producing (conservatively) 50,000 units per week
         | last year, that would put them at around 0.5 million units sold
         | in single-unit quantities (10 weeks * 50k). Probably a bit more
         | than that.
         | 
         | At this point, I'm not sure of the breakdown, but from what
         | Eben said in the interview (and I have no reason to believe
         | he's lying), they should be able to continue sending out new
         | stock to all suppliers continuously (unlike with Pi 4, where it
         | was sometimes _months_ between shipments to many vendors).
        
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